Usually means: Absorb all attention or interest.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. engross: Merriam-Webster
  2. engross: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. engross: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. engross: Collins English Dictionary
  5. engross: Vocabulary.com
  6. engross: Wordnik
  7. engross: Wiktionary
  8. engross: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. engross: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. engross: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. engross: Dictionary.com
  12. engross: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Engross: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Engross: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. engross: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. engross: Rhymezone
  17. engross: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. engross: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. engross: FreeDictionary.org
  20. engross: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. engross: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. engross: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. engross: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. engross: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. engross: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. engross: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. engross: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. engross: Idioms
  2. engross: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See engrossed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
verb:  (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
verb:  (transitive) To completely engage the attention of; to involve.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
verb:  (obsolete) To amass.

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